To be fair, "Video to go to sleep to" isn't really compatible with interesting topics, and I find most of Anton's videos absolutely fascinating.

Then again, I've never been one to be able to fall asleep listening to a podcast either. If I need a suitably innoffensive background noise to sleep to, classical music or jazz usually is just the ticket.

Yes, but you can hang humans who do them. Thats a powerful incentive not to.

Certainly there's a market for it.

Is there? As a musician I'm constantly hearing from punters about the growing frusturation with clearly AI shit ending up on their playlists.

And sure as fuck us musicians don't want it. Especially if its built on stealing our music. At least with Napster 90% of the time the attribution was there and those kids would turn up to our shows. This? Completely strips us out of the equasion. Fuck that.

The only role for SUNO/UDIO/etc in the industry is to get sued and raided for copyright infringement. Why should some poor kid who ran a torrent tracker face prison, but when a CEO ramps the theft up to industrial scale they get invited to the whitehouse. Seems pretty back to front to me.

Yeah its the accountability thats the problem.

If an AI convinces a kid to kill himself (Has happened multiple times), who do you drag in front of the judge. If *I* did that, I'd be turbo-fucked by a judge for it. Quite possibly even homicide charges. But an AI cant' have criminal liability.

And this becomes even more accute as AI starts getting used for warfighting. If I lead a bunch of soldiers and do a war crime against a bus full of children, then assuming the system is working properly, I'm liable for some very serious consequences, possibly even a capital murder charge if it was particularly brutal. But if an autonomous AI drone decides to waste a schoolbus, well whos getting busted? Probably nobody. At worst its a civil liability from angry parents suing. Peter Thiel, or more likely, the taxpayer pays some "go away" money, and murderbot is cleared for another mission.

As a result, the human soldier is going to choose not to open fire, because he knows the consequences of murdering, but theres not a lot to stop an AI drone.

And these legal questions are not new. We've been struggling to piece them together for autonomous vehicles where questions like "Do you keep driving and run over the pedestrian or swerve and risk killing the driver" are literally playing out on streets around america. Who's liable when that AI car makes the wrong call? Musk? The Driver? Or that shitty non-human robot that actually did it. Its not like you can send a car to jail.

You'll have to dig deep into his catalogue to find that. Due to all the copyright strikes, he doesnt really do the "what makes this song great" stuff much anyore. But theres *tonnes* of music theory vids in those archives

Oh they rarely survive a few years. Even if on they are all on the same sheet of paper, it turns out a society actually needs a lot of people on different sheets of paper to function.

Not everyone gets to be "dear leader". Some people have to flip hamburgers or dear leader wont get any hamburgers. Even in "flat" heirachies where everyone is equal in power, you just need a diverse range of people and temperaments. Whos going to defend the colony. Whos going to collect the garbage. Whos going to clean up senile grandpa's shitty adult nappies. Well we can all take turns I SUPPOSE but ... gosh it starts sound awfully like communism at this point, and that doesn't seem to be what these galts gulchers are aiming for!

So all the "entrepeneurs" fly off to their whacky seasteading island or whatever the fuck, and ok great you now got libertopia. Ok time to start manuf.... wait, did nobody bring labourers? Where do we get labourers from when staying back home guarantees said labourers a protected income and actual workplace safety guarantees.

Its just dumb.

I suspect a lot of the "what makes it great" you'd probably need to be a musician to understand. Rick tends to deep dive on the theory behind songs (His primary 'gimmick' is that he's a music educator who used to be a prominent record studio producer) and I've learned a lot about how artists use various musical techniques and theories to build those songs. Granted amongst my many hats I used to teach music I already knew most of the theory, but its interesting seeing it taken out of its usual pedagogical context of "heres how to do modal improvisation in jazz" or "heres how to do counterpoint when writing baroque style classical" into a pop/rock context to see how popular artists use those techniques.

Before:

Oh no China is buying american AI technology! This is bad for our economy. Lets ban them buying our stuff!

After:

China now manufactures AI technology cheaper than America.

Flawless victory for america.

It would *seem* that the answer thus presents itself. Just breed up shit tonnes of rabbits, and start coating them with something thats toxic to snakes but not rabbits. Paracetamol for instant is hugely toxic to snakes but mammals have at least SOME resistance (Though you definately dont want to OD on it, its a horrible and slow way to die. ED nurses often have horrifying stories over the occasional teenage girl that would come in with liver failure from a failed suicide a week earlier pleading to be saved and by that point its at the "make them comfortable" stage. ). Figure out how to coat rabbits in something high in paracetomol but unlikely to OD the rabbit, and you've got a goddamn strategy on your hands.

In australia our main conservative party is the "liberal party" (Yes its confusing, and theres a long history behind why this is). When I was at university, there was a thing called the "young liberals movement". Its essentially the cadet wing of the adult party. Theres also a young labor party too. I got a bit of an insight into how these parties work watching these kids, and boy did it not look promising.They'd turn up to university in bowties and suits, this being the 1990s when standard student dress was ripped flannelette, a nose ring and green hair, and march around campus screaming at people calling them "f**gots" and "commies" and students are like "Dude, get out my face I have a class to go to". They'd get rough with people too, though it *rarely* worked out well for them. I saw a bunch of them turn up to a talk by a woman who was a sexual assault survivor and one of them started shouting out "You deserved it b*tch" etc, and wouldnt shut up till the largest middle aged lesbian I've ever seen rocked over and hit him so hard he flew off his feet. He deserved it too, he was menacing young women, and screaming at people, if giant lesbian lady hadn't throttled him, campus security likely would have. This was, maybe 1996.

These junior psychos end up as the politicians of tomorrow, which at this point is today. I worked at the student union, and encountered one absolute freak of a man, albino, dressed like he was from the 1800s, very agressive, would turn up to events and try and disrupt them. Etc. Well, in the years since, he started working as a senate staffer, then became a state senator, aaaand then it came out he was a serial pedo. In his few years in power he rapidly got a reputation as an absolute bastard. He was hardly the sole exception either. The most famous ex young-liberal was "half term" tony abbot, the man who was briefly prime-minister for about a year before his own party got sick of his extremist nonsense and rolled him out and replaced him with the entirely respectable centrist Malcolm Turnbull. But the damage to the party was already done and Turnbull himself got rolled and replaced with the obnoxious Scott Morrison, aka "Scotty from marketing" who largely had similar policies as Abbott, but was less prone to insane ranting.

The thing is, the rot starts from the roots. How the party gains its membership. The LNP started off as being basically the rich guys party, but then started to move towards recruiting via campus psychos. And it started turning into an extremist party.

The LNP are likely to be out of power for a while now. The demographics are not in their favor. Eventually that'll happen to the republicans too. Its current insanity is in part because the party knows that demographically its projected to lose Texas at some point in the next decade, and once it loses texas, the game is over, the presidency cant be won without it just as the dems cant win the presidency without california. So its in a rampage trying to use what MIGHT be its last presidency in a generation to buttress itself against those demographic changes. That would be a lot harder in australia, our system is a lot harder to fudge by gerymandering, voter caging and other nonsense tactics. But in the US, you guys have *serious* structural problems with your electoral system you need to sort out, or its gonna stay a two party system that attracts radicals and psychos. Cos Abbot was bad, but he was no Trump.

It sure as hell looks stupid coming through the computer, especially if the poor taco flipper filling the order has to manually refuse every cup

Its all a bit weird. I worked in the government here in Australia, and our laws are really clear. Ain't no data allowed to leave the shores. This was drilled into us. No cloud accounts with weird (usually american) foreign cloud services, none of that. Australian data held by the govt must be kept under australian juristiction. The only govt departments likely to be excempt (or just not giving a shit) would be spook agencies (5 eyes is a racket to let your govt spy on you by just getting a friendly nation outside your laws to do it for you. Plausible deniability)

And AWS where happy to comply. Microsoft too. I wonder whats different for the Scots? I'd presume any UK juristiction is fine (scotlands legal status in the UK would be akin to an american state. theres SOME home rule but its basically part of the UK parliments umbrella) Unless they have some scotland-level laws about scotish data being held in scotland?

The other danger I presume is replacing a snake infestation with a rabbit infestation.

That said, Get really cheap fake rabbits that function as IEDs. Or coat the expensive ones with a durable poison.

Though I suppose you dont really want to poison the aligators.

I wouldnt say garbage, its by any reasonable definition a high quality TV. But you are right about the "smart" features. I just got a 65" Samsung to replace my dying 50" 15yo panasonic "dumb" tv, and dear lord does the cruft drive me mad.

I just want a f***king TV set. I dont NEED free bundled SkyTV, that shit is for pubs to replay the horse races and angry mouth foamers. I dont want. an entire button menu dedicated to exercise. I dont want smart home integration, I like having a dumb home. I just want to watch Netflix and the football!

I see. Can you name any of the dark money orgs funding right wing influencers? If we're going to be pointing fingers, let's get them all out in the open so everyone can be more aware.

Koch Brothers
Americans for liberty
Heratige foundation
ALEC (that ones a more direct polticians, rather than influencer one, but its super pernicious)
Thomas W Smith foundation
Tenet Media (russian inflence op)
Atlas Network
Fraser Institute

The list goes on..